War Story

by SaraHely (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  When war breaks out in 1939, guns and fat barrage balloons invade Hyde Park. The Dulcimer grandchildren are sent into Sussex, and they find life at Dulcimer Hall as humdrum as ever -- with no excitements or worries about a German invasion, and no inkling at all of the dramas developing in the lives of the adults around them. Into their world comes Maggie Dunlop, a Scottish girl taken on as a nursery maid. Having escaped her violent father, soon she's thriving, adored by the children, well liked by both staff and family. Little does she know that her popularity is sowing dangerous seeds of jealousy, or that feelings of affection can grow into a deep yet impossible love.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.28

  Mistreated by her tyrant of a father in a remote Scottish glen, Maggie finds refuge in her position as a servant at rambling Dulcimer Hall in Sussex. But the arrival of war turns her life upside down as she and the children she looks after are evacuated to America. There Maggie blossoms, stirring jealousy within the household, and though it is Maggie who averts a potential tragedy, she must in the end come home alone. Working as a WAAF driver, one day she picks up a pilot whom she recognises: it's David Vorst, a cousin of the Dulcimer family, with whom she has already fallen in love, and whose wife was the cause of Maggie's departure from America. David has grown disillusioned with the selfish woman he married, and his heart is Maggie's: but how can he abandon his wife and her children? Sure that he won't, Maggie returns to the Highlands to lay old ghosts and find new dreams - little knowing that her old dreams could yet come true.